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| From: | Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] Re: Moving the portage tree to /var | ||
| Date: | Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:37:40 | ||
| Message-Id: | m2qjgu$at0$1@ger.gmane.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var by Mike Gilbert |
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| 1 | Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
| 2 | > |
| 3 | > I'm not sure if the portage team has decided what to do long-term. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | The long-term plans are to drop PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY |
| 6 | completely, the reason being that it is not flexible enough: |
| 7 | With repos.conf you can specify details for every repository, |
| 8 | you are not even forced to have a *single* major repository |
| 9 | (AFAIK, this is called mix-ins in some other package managers), |
| 10 | etc. |
| Subject | Author |
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| [gentoo-user] Switch from PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY to repos.conf - WAS: Moving the portage tree to /var | Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> |